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Showing Original Post only (View all)UK firm's solar power breakthrough could make world's most efficient panels by 2021 [View all]
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/15/uk-firms-solar-power-breakthrough-could-make-worlds-most-efficient-panels-by-2021UK firm's solar power breakthrough could make world's most efficient panels by 2021
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
Sat 15 Aug 2020 00.00 BST
British rooftops could be hosting a breakthrough in new solar power technology by next summer, using a crystal first discovered more than 200 years ago to help harness more of the suns power.
An Oxford-based solar technology firm hopes by the end of the year to begin manufacturing the worlds most efficient solar panels, and become the first to sell them to the public within the next year.
Oxford PV claims that the next-generation solar panels will be able to generate almost a third more electricity than traditional silicon-based solar panels by coating the panels with a thin layer of a crystal material called perovskite.
The breakthrough would offer the first major step-change in solar power generation since the technology emerged in the 1950s, and could play a major role in helping to tackle the climate crisis by increasing clean energy.
By coating a traditional solar power cell with perovskite a solar panel can increase its power generation, and lower the overall costs of the clean electricity, because the crystal is able to absorb different parts of the solar spectrum than traditional silicon.
Typically a silicon solar cell is able to convert up to about 22% of the available solar energy into electricity. But in June 2018, Oxford PVs perovskite-on-silicon solar cell surpassed the best performing silicon-only solar cell by reaching a new world record of 27.3%.
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nitpicker
Aug 2020
OP
A bigger deal is that these lead laced perovskites will be killing people in 25 years.
NNadir
Aug 2020
#2
World's coal has been falling since 2013, albeit not in a straight line. 2019 lower by 3.3%
progree
Aug 2020
#11
Really? Misinformation? "Fake news?" "Talking points" Your references for this claim are what?
NNadir
Aug 2020
#16
See, I have read a number of your prior posts on this topic and see a pattern
Miguelito Loveless
Aug 2020
#17
I wonder what the cost and life span is of this type of solar panel. I have a total of 30 panels,
in2herbs
Aug 2020
#3
I agree but while we are investing in long-term renewable energy why can't solar be an
in2herbs
Aug 2020
#15
AOC and Markey have a green plan that, from what I've read, Biden is exploring. nt
in2herbs
Aug 2020
#24